Hair by Frances Sand

It’s been a while! Here’s a little bit of what I’ve been up to since… oh dear. April!

You know when you leave something so long, it gets to a point where there’s so much to say you just have no idea how to even start?
I am at that point, so I’m just going to list some fun stuff , show you some pictures, and leave you with a promise that I hereby resolve to be better about updating in 2013.

I wrote it on my blog, so that means it’s real!

1:I styled Kendra for about a million shows, here’s one of them.
2:Becca and Kate were snapped by Inked Magazine at the NYC convention this year, which would never have happened if I hadn’t done their hair that day, obvi!
3:I made some gold ladies to promote Kendra’s press release party for her album, Banshee.
4:Stine and I came up with this Yolandi Visser inspired short cut that caught the attention of the lady herself (fangirl moment).
5:I made some pretty fingerwaves for a flapper themed party.
6,7:I started some new dreadlocks.
8:I shaved off some old ones.
9,10:I maintained some existing ones.
11:I even extended some a little bit, to achieve a more uniform length.
12,13,14:I did some sweet extensions.
14:I started one of those extension clients on her journey away from 7 years of the dreaded Triple B; Box Black Buildup.
15:A client and I realized how far she’d come by growing her hair out with extensions, so we bragged about it on the internet.
15:We had a pop-up shop for our highly talented good friend’s clothing/accessory line, Ssik Kiss.
16:And finally, on a more personal note, I made the greatest family photo holiday card ever. Feel free to print that out for your bedroom wall, cat-pervs

This is Axel. He’s been serving witchcraft realness since before The Kids buying “Black Magic” shot glasses at Urban Outfitters were even born.

Trust me when I say his soul is blacker and more evil than yours. If you live in or around New York, you probably know of him, he’s something of a legend.

Also, he’s a total sweetheart and lives on the same block as our salon, so we had an art show for him tonight. He made the amazing baphomet on my belt that everybody covets. You can spot his pieces in Lady Gaga videos, but who cares about that when you can wear a crown of thorns with an eyeball in the middle of it, or wield a sword like this one?

My pictures don’t do his artwork justice, so I pilfered some better ones from this 2001 article about a collaborative show he did with John John Jesse, but really you should just come to the salon and see them for yourselves. We will have them up for a few weeks, and we have prints as well as the originals for sale. They are all painted in his own blood.

Salon friend, and personal bestie, Kendra Morris released her second single from her album. It dropped today on MTV Buzzworthy  where they had this to say about the hair in the video:

“…expressions of apathetic bad-assery, and absurdly amazing hair. (Between Kendra’s brown waves and the lustrous black mane sported by her man-friend, we’re experiencing maj coiffure envy.)”

I mean… I’m just sayin’…

(I styled Kendra’s and also her love interest, a long time friend of mine, Steven Astbury’s hair for this video)

We spent a week in beautiful, sunny LA for this shoot. It was tough I tell ya!

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I added a few new pictures to some of the galleries, I’m out of time for today, but there are lots more to come!

Updating my site, that is!

So, this is very late in coming, but here is the ‘Concrete Waves’ video for Kendra Morris that we all worked so hard on last summer. This post is so late, in fact, that her new video, ‘If You Didn’t Go’ comes out next week, and also the video for the B-side, ‘Pulling Teeth’.

So, until next week, enjoy ‘Concrete Waves’.

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Welcome to the website! Everything is brand new, so please bear with me while I iron out the glitches and get it all uploaded and operational.

Feel free to add me to your blogroll, and check back often to see what I’ve been up to.

xx Frances

P.S. If you can guess the movie reference to this entry title, I’ll give you 10% off your first service!